NREL offers insight into the economic feasibility and key cost drivers of producing chemical intermediates from carbon dioxide (CO2) and electricity across five different conversion pathways.
These data visualizations are a companion to The Economic Outlook for Converting CO2 and Electrons to Molecules, Energy & Environmental Science (2021).
Visualize Key Conversion Metrics
![3D Illustration showing how carbon dioxide and electricity—directly through microbial electrosynthesis, high-temperature electrolysis, and low-temperature electrolysis and indirectly through thermochemical conversion and biological conversion—produces fuel, chemicals, and plastic precursors.](/bioenergy/co2-utilization-economics/assets/images/conversion-pathways.jpg)
Developed with funding from the Bioenergy Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy.
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